Automobile-hood



P. KERN. AUTOMOBiLE HOOD.

APPLICATION FILED APR.23, 1920.

1,390,295. PatentedSept. 13,1921.

STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PETER KERN, 0F MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA, ASSIGNOROF ONE-HALF TO JOHN R.

BOOTH,

JR, 0F OTTAWA,

ONTARIO, CANADA.

AUTOMOBILE-HOOD.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 13, 1921.

Application filed April 23, 1920. Serial No. 375,079.

To all whom it may Be it known that 1, PETER KERN, of the city of Montreal, Province of Quebec, Dominion of Canada, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Automobile-Hoods; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention relates particularly to the hood or cover of the portion of the vehicle body in which the engines are located and it has for its object to provide a readily displaceable cover or top which can be manufactnred at a greatly reduced cost without loss of durability and possessing facilities for opening it at either side and in such a way as to fully expose the interior and consequently the engines located therein.

T he invention consists of the particular construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and illustrated and pointed out in the claim.

For full comprehension however of my invention reference must be had to the accompanying drawings in which similar reference characters indicate the same parts and wherein:

Figure l is a plan view of the front portion of a motor vehicle provided with my invention Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional view taken beneath the hood and looking up;

Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view taken on line 3-3 Fig. 1; and

Fig. 4; is a transverse sectional view taken on line i -4: Fig. 2.

The body of the vehicle is indicated at e and the radiator at f, the parts appearing in the drawing being the flanges upon the body and radiator.v The flange 6 has an angular bracket d fastened rigidly thereon, such bracket havinga pair of holes for pivotally supporting the forward ends of the wings, such flange also having rigidly secure thereto one end of the longitudinal central weather proofing and wing-locking T-bar g. An angular bracket h the same in all respects as the bracket d is supported on flange f and has a bolt hole It with which a similar hole g in the bar 9 registers, a bolt being passed through these holes and detachably securing the bracket to the flange. e holes in the angle bracket and in which the wings are pivoted are indicated at d in concern bracket of, and 71 in bracket h. The wings are the same in all respects, and each consists of two parts i and j hinged together as at 70, the upper end of the top part 71 having an angle iron 19 secured thereto, such angle iron having at each end a rigid pivot pin m, the angle iron having the sheet metal of the top ibent around one of its flanges as shown in Fig. while the dimensions in cross section of the angle iron are such that the hinged pin or and the holes d and k are spaced sufficiently from the bar 9 to permit the wing to be turned back over its center when opened and thus remain comparatively steady in its open position.

What I claim is as follows:

In a motor vehicle the combination with the body thereof having a flange and a radiator having a flange; of a T-bar extending between said body and radiator and adapted to connect the same together, a pair of brackets of angular cross-section located one at each end of said bar and positioned with one flange overlapping the flanges on the radiator and body respectively and with the other flange extending downwardly, means permanently fastening the flange overlapping the body flange to the latter and means detachably lapping flange of the other bracket to the radiator flange, a pair of hood sections located on opposite sides of said bar with their adjacent edges extending beneath the horizontally disposed portions of the latter, means for reinforcing said edges and for hingedly mounting the hood sections in said brackets said last mentionedmeans consisting of a pair of angle-irons located one on each side of said T-bar and having trunnions at their opposite ends journaled in the downwardly extending flanges of said brackets each angle-iron in closed position being disposed with one flange secured to one of the hood sections and extending beneath the top of the T-bar and with the other flange perpendicular to said hood section.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two witnesses.

I PETER KERN.

Witnesses:

Gonnon G. Cooxn, WILLIAM J. C. Hnwnrson.

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